Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Reading between the lines Quiz

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Reading between the lines questions

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1. Why does Utterson decide that Jekyll is being blackmailed?
   He assumes Jekyll is paying for some old sin · Hyde boasts of his hold over the doctor · Poole tells him money leaves the house weekly · He has seen Hyde forging Jekyll's signature
2. How does Jekyll's manner change the moment Utterson raises the will?
   He turns pale and tries to change the subject · He angrily orders Utterson from the house · He agrees to draw up a new will next week · He laughs and tears the document up at once
3. What makes the murder weapon personally damning for Jekyll?
   The cane came from Jekyll's laboratory bench · The cane bore Jekyll's initials on a silver band · The cane had been Utterson's own gift to him · The cane had been described in Jekyll's will
4. What does Mr Guest see when he compares the letter with Jekyll's invitation?
   The letter was written on Lanyon's paper · The ink in the letter had been newly bought · The two hands are identical but sloped apart · The signature had been traced in pencil
5. What alarms Utterson in the days after the eighth of January?
   Jekyll leaves London without telling anyone · A new will arrives at his chambers · Jekyll's door is shut against all callers · Lanyon stops answering any of his letters
6. Why does Jekyll refuse to come down and join their walk?
   He says the fog has made him too ill · He says Utterson has offended him deeply · He says Poole has locked the laboratory · He says he dare not, though he wishes to
7. What sight in the theatre convinced Poole that his master was gone?
   His master's body seen through the keyhole · A masked thing like a monkey among the crates · Hyde's clothes folded on the cabinet floor · A fresh grave dug in the courtyard
8. Which detail about the body on the cabinet floor points to the real explanation?
   He is holding Lanyon's sealed packet · His face is the face of Henry Jekyll · He is dressed in clothes far too large for him · He is clutching half of a broken cane
9. Why is Hyde smaller, slighter and younger than Jekyll?
   The drug reversed the ageing of the body · Hyde was modelled on Jekyll in youth · The dose Jekyll first took was too small · Jekyll's evil side was the less exercised part
10. Why can Jekyll no longer make the drug work at the end?
    Poole has destroyed the last of the papers · The first salt held an impurity he cannot replace · His body has grown resistant to the dose · Lanyon's death cut off his supply of chemicals
11. What is the real significance of the door Hyde lets himself in by?
    It is the laboratory way into Jekyll's house · It leads to the cellar where salts are kept · It opens on Lanyon's consulting room · It belongs to Hyde's own rooms in Soho
12. How does the double life finally end?
    Utterson burns the confession unread · Hyde escapes and is never heard of again · Jekyll is arrested for Carew's murder · Hyde takes poison as the door is broken in

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